Close. Since Gen6, use of PAM4 encoding transfers 2 bits/transfer.
Before that, regular NRZ encoding transferred 1bit/transfer.

Gen6 is still 32GT/s, but approximately 64Gb/s.
Gen7 is 64GT/s, but approximately 128Gb/s

Perhaps, but I doubt the hacker groups are making careful analysis of knock-on and secondary effects to make sure people aren't injured. Maybe it was just an accident that they didn't muck with some system that say, causes a critical safety check to be overlooked and cause a plane to fall out of the sky.

As repugnant as the current Russian regime is, and even if some or many civilians support it, I would draw the line at attacking/disrupting civilian infrastructure. Go to town on the military/military-adjacent industry, but leave the civvies alone.

I say this just on the principle that if this is normalized, *I* could be next. Goodness knows U.S. infrastructure is probably Swiss cheese to determined hackers, and there are plenty of people having beef with the U.S. (this goes waay back, even before the current administration, but especially so now.) I don't want to be caught in the cross fire.

That said, perhaps the horse has long since left the barn, got on the ship, and the ship has sailed. What a sad world we live in.

I read somewhere recently that OSHA is largely defunded by the current administration with large portion of their staff laid off. We can welcome back the days of arms getting chopped off and eyes being taken out soon. So much winning!

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Where's the standard comparison to well known buildings? I thought it was required for such types of articles. ;)

I'll add that the iconic Tokyo Tower, once the tallest structure in Tokyo, is 333m.
Bing tells me the empire state building is 453m.

That's pretty impressive for a windmill.

Speaking of language, I'm reminded of a Youtube video of some language nerd going around Rome speaking Latin to random people. (I forgot which strain of Latin--there are apparently a couple still currently used. It was something like the one used in church and one used in academia or something like that.)
It was everyday stuff like "How often do you come to the park?" He got >50% rate of regular folks understanding the gist of what he's saying and being able to respond. Of course, he could have edited it, but the apparent motivation was to figure out what the rate was, so it sounded legit.

I thought that was interesting.

That was my reaction as well. They'll be one of the last to be buried in the cesspool of AI crap. In fact, they may see the other countries being destroyed and maybe even successfully stop it in theirs.

As others have pointed out, so that they don't have to keep producing the old chip that is now "outdated". Everything else they will be producing will be M4 or later, so it makes sense to take advantage of the economies of scale.
Also, presumably, each iteration of their M series gets more power efficient for the same unit of computation, so they can get more battery life out of it, or even possibly get rid of the separate battery pack. Lower power will make the thermal design easier, which could also lead to a lighter unit (weight being one of the more prominent complaints.)

I think I've seen an idea where it goes even further. NO contributions to political candidate/party. Period.
All elections are publicly funded with all candidates getting the same amount. They can all buy the same amount of commercial time/posters/etc.
If the revolution comes and we get to do a do-over, I think we should try this method first.

Before we go there, we can at least stop allowing corporate donations. Why should a few board members have political "speech" powers that leverage the resources of all employees and shareholders?

The current US system, as seen from any other civilized country looks like legalized bribery.

I found that a bit surprising, too, but I'm guessing there's a bit more nuance/context to that question than the short clip that I saw.
Regardless, there are rational reasons to provide health care to all who need it in a given community.

But PLEASE do a quick google search "do undocumented immigrants pay taxes?" before you continue.
[Spoiler: to a large extent, they do pay taxes, and since they can't claim any benefits, they are net benefit to the US treasury.]

At least for communicable diseases, the pathogen doesn't really care who it infects, so having some sort of minimal health care for everyone in the community regardless of immigration status makes some sort of sense. If you discourage a certain subgroup from getting help, they'll sit there in your community spreading it among your citizens. It might cost a lot less to make sure small problems get nipped in the bud rather than having it spread everywhere.

In urgent/emergency situations, the cost overhead of determining each patient's immigration status may be greater than just providing care. You don't want your citizens to have to jump through those hoops.

No matter how you look at it, alien workers are providing some benefit to someone by doing whatever work that they are doing. If their work is not of some value to the employer, they wouldn't be working those jobs. Having many of those workers out of the economy due to injury/sickness will cause "friction" in that economic activity (higher costs, delayed service).

You can argue that they shouldn't be there to begin with, but if those setting policy and doing enforcement REALLY believed the illegal alien workers are a problem, I would expect them to be going after those employers really hard, as that would be the easiest and most effective way to combat the problem. The fact that most policymakers don't seem to make any noise about that, and as far as I've seen, may of those rural Republican lawmakers themselves employ such alien labor, makes me think that they don't really think that it's a problem, either. As a voter, if you hear those same politicians going on and on about how horrible those illegal immigrants are, without a peep about the illegal EMPLOYERS which is the bigger part of the problem, your first reaction should be to question their motives.

And while offshoring all of our manufacturing to China.

It's stupid to blame your gardener for polluting with his gardening equipment if you've hired him to do the gardening.

IF the current administration managed to actually achieve the stated goal of bringing all of the manufacturing back to the US (which I doubt will happen), it will reverse the exact trend you're talking about, and you'll lose your lame talking point.

[Can these knuckle-draggers PLEASE stop bringing up the "China is polluting more!!!" argument until AFTER all of the manufacturing that has been offshored to China over the last few decades on-shored back?]

Just a piece of trivia. I'm not a Windows expert, but NTFS also has an equivalent of symlinks, and a command to go along with it. I'll let the experts chime in on what those commands are. I don't think I've ever seen it used, though. For most home users on GUI, shortcuts are "close enough".

Specifically, if I'm recalling an earlier discussion of a similar topic correctly, in this type of application, the 2-D describes that the charge carriers (electrons, holes) have 2 degrees of freedom. It's not meaningful to talk about them moving in anything other than x or y direction within a sheet of material. I'm guessing something like that applies here.

Every time this type of technology comes up on a /. story, there's always a wise guy that states that "it's not really 2-D!". One should realize that different fields of study use vocabulary in different ways, and it's completely reasonable and useful to do so. Further, unless you are an expert in the specific field in question, your first reaction shouldn't be "oh, they're wrong! How dumb!", but rather, "oh, here's a usage I'm unfamiliar with. I wonder what it means in this field of study?"

It's not a contradiction, but it's an error. Perhaps the author did not properly understand the distinction between bits/sec and Transfer/sec.
Up to gen 5, gen N meant roughly 2^N transfer per second.* It was regular NRZ encoding so GT/s ~= Gb/s.
In Gen6, they went to PAM4, so 2 bits per transfer. Gen6 is still 32GT/s, but 64Gb/s per lane.
16 lanes of Gen6 is128GB/s (B = Byte).
In Gen7, they went back to increasing the transfer rate, and of course kept the PAM4 encoding. 64GT/s @2b/T = 128Gb/s, x16 lanes is 256GB/s.

*Up to Gen2, it was 8b/10b encoding so they were 2.5GT/s (for effective 2Gb/s) and 5GT/s (for effective 4Gb/s) for the first 2 generations.
After that, encoding changed to 64b/65b so the GT/s ~= Gb/s.
FLIT encoding is now required (or maybe it was required in Gen6. Too lazy to look up) I think this increases efficiency by further reducing encoding overhead.